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A Companion to the Anthropology of the Body and Embodiment

Book information

Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Year
2011
ISBN
1405189495, 978-1-4051-8949-1
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5412755 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
560\554
Time added
2014-02-12 18:00:00

Description

A Companion to the Anthropology of the Body and Embodiment offers original essays that examine historical and contemporary approaches to conceptualizations of the body.In this ground-breaking work on the body and embodiment, the latest scholarship from anthropology and related social science fields is presented, providing new insights on body politics and the experience of the bodyOriginal chapters cover historical and contemporary approaches and highlight new research frameworksReflects the increasing importance of embodiment and its ethnographic contexts within anthropologyHighlights the increasing emphasis on examining the production of scientific, technological, and medical expertise in studying bodies and embodiment

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